This thread will serve as my poultry diary.

@01.03 pm, the birds have just been vaccinated.

Day 3, it is fun watching those birds, however I felt bad I couldn't save one that I lost on day 2.

The plan was to raise 25broilers, 25 pullets, 4 English turkey, 4 'local' turkey, but the lady I bought from didn't deliver as expected, so I had to make do with the 25 broilers.

The broilers are of the Agrited breed and I got a total number of 26.

Well done i would like to see more of your updates. I’m also into poultry. I have 200 layers in their 5th weeks with no mortality

The cluster of the birds is not for love or affection, it is for the warmth that company brings.


Wisdom will not sha kill me

solaiphones:
Well done i would like to see more of your updates. I’m also into poultry. I have 200 layers in their 5th weeks with no mortality

Wonderful!

I'll so love to, but that won't be for long as I have plans to return to base soon. I will have to leave it in the hands of my sibling.

Getting involved with this project has effectively reduced the time I have for bullshit and dickmeasuring

Good people of NL I need your help. I want to raise 300 broiler birds but don't know how much will be enough to raise them to 2kg for 6 weeks. Also: would you recommend branded feed or I propound my feeds? if to propound feed how do I go about it? the vaccination process how do I administer it? thanks in anticipation

Ade4all080:
Good people of NL I need your help.
I want to raise 300 broiler birds but don't know how much
will be enough to raise them to 2kg for 6 weeks.
Also:
would you recommend branded feed or I propound my
feeds?
if to propound feed how do I go about it?
the vaccination process how do I administer it?
thanks in anticipation

Check the thread by @jidestroud, he is more experienced and would better advise you.

So I lost another bird 2days back, it has had a limp and didn't gain as much weight as others.

I have developed a game I play with my birds; I throw Noddles about and watch them scamper for it.

It also helps me notice if and when there are weaklings among them.

It is hard to believe these were the tiny birds I got days back.

When I started this project, I had nothing in mind other than raising them and keeping myself busy, but a discussion with the woman I bought them from just changed everything.

Now I have plans to brood and sell them off @ week three with her help of course, I hope to restock by next week, all things being equal.

This is fun so far.

Just took delivery of an additional 51 day old chicks.

Now the watch begins afresh

mcdokwe:
This is fun so far.

Just took delivery of an additional 51 day old chicks.

Now the watch begins afresh

Let me rest in here a little. By the way, hope the first sets are doing great?

jidestroud:


Let me rest in here a little. By the way, hope the first sets are doing great?

Yes sir, I have sold most of them @ 2 weeks plus. They are part of the reason I'm motivated to do more.

mcdokwe:


Yes sir, I have sold most of them @ 2 weeks plus. They are part of the reason I'm motivated to do more.

Great!!!
Hoping to learn a few things from you.

jidestroud:

Great!!!
Hoping to learn a few things from you.

Look at this man o, biko dey go make I dey follow you for back

mcdokwe:
This is fun so far.

Just took delivery of an additional 51 day old chicks.

Now the watch begins afresh

boss please recommend a seller and how much is 51 birds ?

Mnewton:
boss please recommend a seller and how much is 51 birds ?

I bought from a seller in umuahia @ 26k I.e 520/ chick and that includes the cost for vaccination.

mcdokwe:


I bought from a seller in umuahia @ 26k I.e 520/ chick and that includes the cost for vaccination.

Wow!!! That's quite on the high side. What do you mean by vaccination again if I may ask? or didn't you say they were DOC again? Enlighten me

jidestroud:

Wow!!! That's quite on the high side. What do you mean by vaccination again if I may ask? or didn't you say they were DOC again? Enlighten me

I guess marek vaccine. However the price of the DOC seems too costly.

jidestroud:

Wow!!! That's quite on the high side. What do you mean by vaccination again if I may ask? or didn't you say they were DOC again? Enlighten me

Chineke m eh!

The 'lasota' they give them. I compared the price on afrimash website and thought the difference is negligible.

I thought it was expensive too but Wetin I go do as the price comparison I did around umuahia proved hers was cheaper.

I bought the first @490 they said it was agrited

True, there's no rationale behind the exorbitant prices of doc even with the demand. It's just wickedness to me. C'mon, why should the price of any broiler doc be 450 for the love of God!!!! The prices are determined by two gladiators in the hatchery business & we all know what's playing out. It is well oooo.

To crown it all up, you get adulterated birds in place of your original orders. Local hatcheries ain't smiling at all.

I wish you all best of luck, but as for me and myself, we are gradually librating ourselves from the shackles of this unwarranted increment in prices by using. . .

mcdokwe:


Chineke m eh!

The 'lasota' they give them. I compared the price on afrimash website and thought the difference is negligible.

I thought it was expensive too but Wetin I go do as the price comparison I did around umuahia proved hers was cheaper.

I bought the first @490 they said it was agrited

Hmmm... Okay. I guess it's fair after all. Let's say you buy from all these online sellers and you have to pay for transportation too.

mcdokwe:


I bought from a seller in umuahia @ 26k I.e 520/ chick and that includes the cost for vaccination.

My God,this is too exorbitant

Fundango:

My God,this is too exorbitant

Chai! You people want to make me cry, and to think they hardly agree to pay 900 for a 3 weeks old

jidestroud:
True, there's no rationale behind the exorbitant prices of doc even with the demand. It's just wickedness to me. C'mon, why should the price of any broiler doc be 450 for the love of God!!!! The prices are determined by two gladiators in the hatchery business & we all know what's playing out. It is well oooo.

To crown it all up, you get adulterated birds in place of your original orders. Local hatcheries ain't smiling at all.

I wish you all best of luck, but as for me and myself, we are gradually librating ourselves from the shackles of this unwarranted increment in prices by using. . .

Biko complete it na... I get, you hatch your eggs yourself. I pray I be like you when I grow.

mcdokwe:


Biko complete it na... I get, you hatch your eggs yourself. I pray I be like you when I grow.

Lol
I was going to saying; . . . local birds as my next project. Time to explore their uniqueness.

That's a nice area too. Because of you, I even decided to try cockerels. I also ordered a carton from afrimash @3500. Hoping to take delivery on Friday.�

mcdokwe:
That's a nice area too. Because of you, I even decided to try cockerels. I also ordered a carton from afrimash @3500. Hoping to take delivery in Friday.�

Did you just say cocke.... Tah!!!
Nevertheless, it's all about the targeted market.

jidestroud:

Did you just say cocke.... Tah!!!
Nevertheless, it's all about the targeted market.

lol, no be chicken? I say e cheap make I just gamble... My tummy na good market if I no see sell o

mcdokwe:
lol, no be chicken? I say e cheap make I just gamble... My tummy na good market if I no see sell o

Cockerel na native foul na

All the best boss. God's speed on your cockerel addition to your pen. By the way, I still consider N3,500 for those things on the high side.

Don't worry, I just may help you with tips to help with their feeding to cut down cost when the time arises. Cockerel na brain oooo. (Annoying birds )